From "The Origin of Man-Chicken!" in
Chicken-Man #273, April-May 1973 (reprinted in
Chicken-Man Family Giant Special #7, Summer 1978, and in
The Greatest Chicken-Man Stories Ever Told, Nostalgia Press, 2003):

Dr. Francis Putney Willmott, noted researcher at
Perdue Laboratories, is on the verge of a breakthrough in his attempt to breed that Holy Grail of the poultry farming industry, the boneless chicken, when an experiment goes
horribly wrong! You know the rest, pilgrim!